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The Golden Age of Thomas Dolby – Singer-songwriter on his music, and parenting queer kids It’s hard to believe that “The Golden Age of Wireless,” the debut album by musician Thomas Dolby was released more than 40 years ago. Regardless of its vintage, it still sounds as fresh and appealing ...

A new interview with Thomas Dolby in which he talks about "his music, and parenting queer kids."
www.ebar.com/story/163948...

Screenshot of wthitv.com: " Indiana application details need, plan for I-70 tolls, By Tom Davies Mar 10, 2026 Updated 4 hrs ago" And below it is a Getty Images photo of the Gauteng Freeway in South Africa.

What's up today at Allen Media Group's WTHI-TV in Terre Haute? Oh, just illustrating a report about Indiana's I-70 with a stock photo of a freeway in ... South Africa.

Title card for the Space 1999 episode "The Rules of Luton."

Space: 1999 did it more betterer. 😜

Hour 1: Ledernacken, Tauchsieder Pet Shop Boys, Two Divided By Zero Tirez Tirez, Set the Timer (12") Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cities in Dust (12") A Flock of Seagulls, Better and Better Cerrone, The Collector (12") Latin Quarter, Modern Times Joe Jackson, The Jet Set Ruefrex, The Wild Colonial Boy The Wake, O Pamela The Blue Nile, Tinseltown in the Rain The Nylons, Perpetual Emotion Ack-Ack, Shadow of a Heart Hour 2: Big Audio Dynamite, Medicine Show (12") Depeche Mode, Here Is the House The Smiths, The Boy With the Thorn in His Side Prefab Sprout, Appetite Stan Ridgway, Salesman Clannad, Closer to Your Heart Virna Lindt, My Favourite Ring 10,000 Maniacs, Grey Victory Vitamin Z, Burning Flame Erasure, Reunion Danny Hutton Hitters, Wouldn't It Be Good The Primitons, You'll Never Know The Swimming Pool Qs, Blue Tomorrow The Big Sound Authority, Let's Hold Together Hour 3: Tuesday Blue, Don't Go Away (12") Richenel, L'Esclave Endormi (12") Cocteau Twins, Plain Tiger The Sound Barrier, Bank Holiday Eye to Eye, Time Flys Red Guitars, National Avenue (Sunday Afternoon) Elvis Costello, Indoor Fireworks Dead Can Dance, Advent Laurie Anderson, Smoke Rings Chris and Cosey, Misunderstandings Working Week, Venceremos (12")

From 40 years ago today, the (real, actual) 9pm-midnight #playlist on WISU Terre Haute for March 9, 1986.

Here's the Radio M season 5 reveal. Production begins soon. Until then, enjoy our first four seasons of fully immersive eclectic adult-alt radio in an alternate media reality set in beautiful Terre Haute, Indiana.
S01: April 1985
S02: October 2000
S03: April 2001
S04: June 2001
977radiom.com/seasons

Strava map of today's 41-mile ride.

Bicycle dashcam image of, um, me.

Bicycle dashcam image of Virgin River Trail South in St. George UT.

Bicycle dashcam image of new street in the Desert Color area of St. George UT.

"Spring" in southern Utah is usually fleeting at best, and this year looks like it's going to be the same: Temps are now predicted to hit the *mid-90s* by ... next week!?

Radio M might be an "alternate media reality," but it's one that's firmly rooted in actual lived reality.
Bonus: Listen at the end of today's episode for the Radio M season 5 cast reveal!
977radiom.com/wmhd-sunday
Radio M in June 2001: 977radiom.com

Coming tomorrow: the Radio M season 5 era and cast reveal, at the end of tomorrow's WMHD Sunday.
977radiom.com/wmhd-sunday

Hi! Alas, I'm pretty sure that wasn't me, but I like to think I'm kind. Welcome!

Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Disaster Fund Collection Hue and Cry, Labour of Love In Tua Nua, Voice of America The Silencers, Possessed The Mission UK, Tower of Strength The Christians, Forgotten Town Peter Murphy, All Night Long New Order, Let's Go Morrissey, Suedehead Johnny Hates Jazz, Don't Let It End This Way The Big Sound Authority, I'm Stronger Now Prefab Sprout, Cars and Girls The Gun Club, Yellow Eyes The Adventures, Feel the Raindrops The Church, Antenna All About Eve, Flowers in Our Hair Clan of Xymox, A Day Lowlife, Swing The Triffids, A Trick of the Light Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Big Snake David Sylvian, The Boy With the Gun Act, White Rabbit The Sisters of Mercy, Flood II Chakk, Stare Me Out

From 38 years ago today, the 8-10pm #playlist on Nightwave 107, WKPL Platteville WI, for March 6, 1988.

The CFNY: The Spirit of Radio documentary is coming to theatres (Advance ticket info for Oshawa, Hamilton, and Stouffville) | Alan Cross Our little documentary on the Spirit of Radio Years at CFNY (1977-1991-ish) has done VERY well in its 60-minute cut on TVO's YouTube channel, running up

Turns out the documentary was cut from 90min to 60min for air, but the full version is coming this month to theatres across Canada. If I thought I could get back into the US without being tortured, I'd go.
www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-cfny-the...

CFNY: THE SPIRIT OF RADIO documentary trailer YouTube video by HIGHBALLTV

I've finally seen the new documentary about legendary CFNY Toronto. This was one of the greatest stations in North America, and it greatly influenced what we played in Indiana, both for real and in the Radio M universe. Outside Canada, you'll need Dark Arts. Trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckpu...

Bicycle dashcam image of a cute, sexy, witty, huggable gay cyclist.

Looks like my *four months* of dental problems might be over, at least for now. But I definitely didn't expect that to mean I'd be in an, ahem, bulking phase. We're gonna have to do something about that.

Album cover: In the Nursery, Sense

Album cover: Trisomie 21, Works

Album cover: Blutengel, Seelenschmerz

Album cover: UV Pop, Anyone for Me (12" single)

Now it's 10pm on June 30, 2001 in Terre Haute, and Radio M shifts into Dark Matters, the weekly Saturday night two-hour program of industrial, goth, and darkwave, all with that unique Radio M flavor. Here is the first hour:
audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S04E...
The Radio M universe: 977radiom.com

We got *this* close to making Radio M a reality in Indiana in 1985. What if we had succeded? What if it had grown and evolved into the 21st century? Radio M is an immersive work of fiction (and one with awesome musical taste) that you can jump into at any point ... like radio!
977radiom.com/seasons

Single cover: Swing Out Sister, Twilight World

Album cover: Art of Noise, The Seduction of Claude Debussy

Radio, rediscovered. Written and produced with care, intention, and humanity -- not shuffle logic, not algorithms. Here's one of our June 2001 hours that plays Swing Out Sister next to The Art of Noise ... and it works.
Listen: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S04E...
Everything M: 977radiom.com/seasons

virna lindt the tube 1/18/85 YouTube video by Brock2097

And lest you think I'm making up imaginary Swedish singers from the 1980s, here's Virna Lindt doing an extended version of her song from this hour, complete with harpist, on Channel 4 UK's The Tube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fe7...

It's the final "bonus episode" of Season 4, but there are still two more hours on the way. Coming soon, it's Dark Matters: Radio M's Saturday late-night take on industrial, goth, darkwave, and more.
Today's new episode: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S04E...
Everything M: 977radiom.com/seasons

Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Love Missile F1-11 (12") Hans Zimmer, B-29 Tears For Fears, Mothers Talk The Danse Society, Danse/Move Colourbox, You Keep Me Hanging On Modern English, Ink and Paper Bronski Beat, Hit That Perfect Beat (12") Simple Minds, Promised You a Miracle Virna Lindt, Wild Strawberries Ledernacken, Amok New Order, The Perfect Kiss Ish, You're My Only Lover Prefab Sprout, When Love Breaks Down Depeche Mode, Stripped Stan Ridgway, Salesman The Big Sound Authority, I'm Stronger Now Pet Shop Boys, In the Night The Wake, Sail Through UV Pop, Anyone For Me The Last Gentlemen, It's Too Late Ack-Ack, Tracks Play, Erase the Memory Elvis Costello, Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood The Waterboys, Trumpets Cocteau Twins, Pink Orange Red Simply Red, Jericho New Musik, Hunting Microdisney, A Friend With a Big Mouth King, The Taste of Your Tears Everything But the Girl, Shoot Me Down Xymox, No Human Can Drown The Stranglers, Souls Felt, Elegance of an Only Dream The Durutti Column, E.E. Moev, Circles and Squares A Certain Ratio, Flight However, Into the Dance Jean-Michel Jarre, Zoolook

From 40 years ago today, the 9pm-midnight #playlist on WISU Terre Haute for March 2, 1986.

Insert Coin - A Short Film by Game Show Marathon (2026 Reveal Video) YouTube video by 24-Hour Game Show Marathon

The long-running and truly awesome Game Show Marathon returns June 6, live from Philadelphia and playing 24 hours of classic game shows from the US and around the world -- again this year benefitting Child's Play. This year's intriguing lineup has just been announced:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_o...

The Radio M universe didn’t start in 2025. It started here, in the mid-1980s at Rose-Hulman's WMHD. These are actual tapes from 1985: the real foundation that almost led to Radio M. Not polished. Not rewritten. Exactly as they aired.
977radiom.com/wmhd-sunday
Discover Radio M: 977radiom.com/seasons

Strava map of today's 65-mile ride.

Bicycle dashcam image of pre-dawn Riverside Drive, St. George UT. Timestamp reads "2026/02/28 05:33:24".

Bicycle dashcam image of pre-dawn Indian Hills Drive, St. George UT. Timestamp reads "2026/02/28 06:51:26".

Bicycle dashcam image of a cute, witty, and eminently huggable gay cyclist on the Cottonwood Springs Trail in Washington UT. Timestamp reads "2026/02/28 11:13:44".

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-- John Cage, 4'33"

Sunny 104.3 Brings Soft AC To Phoenix - RadioInsight After moving Rhythmic AC “Mega 104.3” to 99.3 earlier today, Sierra H Broadcasting has launched Soft AC “Sunny 104.3” KAJM Camp Verde/Phoenix AZ. Positioning as “Relaxing Favorites For A Better Workda...

Just what the world (and Phoenix) needed, NOT: yet *another* "soft AC" station with "Relaxing Favorites For A Better Workday." When Bob and Drew said "have your pet spayed or neutered," they didn't mean radio stations!
radioinsight.com/headlines/34...

Actual Game Show Cheaters - BuzzerBlog Being really good at a game isn't cheating, but some contestants have found ways to actually break the rules.

My Buzzerblog friend @meplaysgamesyt.bsky.social has written another entertaining and deeply researched piece about game show history -- specifically, notable game show cheaters from around the world. Almost guaranteed you won't know about at least some of these!
www.buzzerblog.com/2026/02/27/a...

Bringing the Radio M format fully to life (finally, after all these years!) is more fun than I've had in a long time. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's great radio that's handmade for discerning listeners ... like you. 😉
Today's episode: audio.977radiom.com/Radio.M.S04E...
More: 977radiom.com

Bicycle dashcam image of a sexy cute huggable gay cyclist posing in front of Red Mountain in Ivins UT, with banners showing a strong north wind.

First 80-degree day of the year in southern Utah. Already. In winter. And look at that wind, too!

Shirt ftw!